Acquainted With The Night
Jun. 2nd, 2004 11:15 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
upatmidnight.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
greatpoetryI have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
-- Robert Frost
Seems a very fitting poem for the way Mother Nature has been acting the past few nights. Bizarre weather patters all over the country but especially on the East Coast where I am. I hope you enjoy the read.
I've loved all the poems everyone has been sharing and I wish I had more time to comment but lately work is keeping me very busy. Thank you all who share, it's so wonderful to take a break and read such beautiful entries.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
-- Robert Frost
Seems a very fitting poem for the way Mother Nature has been acting the past few nights. Bizarre weather patters all over the country but especially on the East Coast where I am. I hope you enjoy the read.
I've loved all the poems everyone has been sharing and I wish I had more time to comment but lately work is keeping me very busy. Thank you all who share, it's so wonderful to take a break and read such beautiful entries.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-06-03 02:44 pm (UTC)...My sister is in a Christian school, where they're having her read something for eighth grade graduation--something with the theme of traveling or roads--and she's been really upset because everything they'll let her do is just...well, really corny. I'm so glad you posted this, because I think it will work. ^_^
wonderful...
Date: 2004-06-06 07:29 am (UTC)that would be wonderful if she could use this...
sadly, that's the problem with our school systems sometimes...
why they choose to not see the world and all it's many, many beauties...
why must they try to shelter...
with the "corny" and pretend we are all about...
"rainbows and lillipops"
i'll never know...
perhaps that is a factor in a lot of our young popping pills...
b/c the real world is too real...
*sigh* so many theories...
so little time!
let me know if it does work for her...
would you?